Two fresh starts. One unexpected Christmas romance.
The one woman he shouldn't love is the one he can't forget.
Will the midnight bell bless their loveβor seal their fate?
He ghosted her ten years ago. Now sheβs stuck with him for Christmas.
Christmas is sweet. Family secrets can be deadly.
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Grand Central Publishing
March 2025
On Sale: March 11, 2025
288 pages ISBN: 1538767988 EAN: 9781538767986 Kindle: B0D8HN5XXY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Sawbrooks have spent decades criss-crossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan and Canada to make their way as smugglers. Those hidden routes through the border's nooks and crannies are their legacy, but they no longer pay the bills. The world has changed; the resorts with their fancy clientele are infringing on their space, and the Sawbrooks find themselves deeply fractured, clutching at their past and the last vestiges of a once close family.
Rhoda, the tough-as-nails matriarch, is caring for her dying husband while finding herself bitterly disappointed in her three adult children. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother’s will, while Buckner, the only boy, is drinking his life away. Jewell, the baby of the family, is her mother’s last hope but when she tries to save them all in one fell-swoop she becomes ensnared in a crime of escalating proportions. The Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old familial ways and the new shifting world, and face each other – and their pain-filled past – to save one of their own.
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